Kevin Benedict Ponders the Future

Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly – Week of July 15, 2012

The Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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Enterprise mobility is evolving so fast that I thought it prudent to conduct a mid-year enterprise mobility survey with 20 short questions and share that information with you. For that purpose, I would be most grateful if you would take a few minutes to answer these questions and share your insights. I will compile the survey results into a report and share it FREE with all survey participants. Please take the survey here.

Vivint enables deployed servicemen and women to remotely control and monitor their home automation and security systems using the Vivint app on a compatible mobile device or computer. Read Original Content

Family Respiratory in the northeast U.S. has implemented a barcode system for inventory and process automation. The company experienced error ratios of .001 or less since implementing the system. Read Original Content

To help determine if benefits outweigh the costs of implementing RFID technology, DC Velocity provides five reasons RFID technology might be right for you. Read Original Content

Since 1995, Syclo has enabled hundreds of companies in 37 countries and industries supercharge their businesses with mobility. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Syclo.

QR codes were used for the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star game to enable fans to have tickets sent to their mobile devices and for numerous interactive promotions. Read Original Content

Black Diamond Advanced Technology’s Modular Tactical System will be utilized by the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command for the Operator Control System. The system incorporates a tactical vest with power management and a rugged computing device and will primarily be used by Special Operations Forces. Read Original Content

The RFID division at Avery Dennison is the fastest rising, with revenue tripling from $50 million in 2010 to more than $150 million in 2011. The company sold more than 25 percent of all RFID tags in 2011. Read Original Content

Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia. Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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Enterprise mobility is evolving so fast that I thought it prudent to conduct a mid-year enterprise mobility survey with 20 short questions and share that information with you. For that purpose, I would be most grateful if you would take a few minutes to answer these questions and share your insights. I will compile the survey results into a report and share it FREE with all survey participants. Please take the survey here.

A report from Pyramid Research predicts the Asia Pacific region will represent 42.3 percent of global mobile data revenue by 2017. Pyramid Research recommends operators in Asia prepare for the mobile data traffic growth by beginning to integrate Wi-Fi into their networks. Read Original Content

Fuji Xerox Taiwan, recognizing the importance of enterprise mobility, has appointed Dimension Data to help design a new network infrastructure to meet the demands of its increasingly mobile workforce. Read Original Content

Apple has selected Auto-Navi as its partner for maps on future iPhones and iPads in China. Chinese users of Apple’s devices with the next version of its mobile-device software will use Auto-Navi’s map service and data rather than Apple’s. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

To facilitate a forum for e-commerce players to extend their business networks and share information, an ‘E-Commerce Tour’ will be held in conjunction with an ‘Online Shopping Fair’ in Indonesia July 12-14, 2012. Read Original Content

India’s Prizm Payment Services is planning to roll out a mobile payments service that will work on feature phones as well as smartphones. Read Original Content

According to a market research report on enterprise mobile cloud computing from Global Industry Analysts, the fastest growing regional market is the Asia Pacific region with a compound annual growth rate of 44.5 percent. Read Original Content

With a marketing pitch of “reach for your phone before you reach for your wallet”, eBay India is turning its focus to mobile commerce. Read Original Content

More Early Results on HTML5 from Kevin Benedict's Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey

In my Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey, I ask the question, "How important is HTML5 or HTML5 hybrid apps to your company's mobility plans?" Here are the early answers (the survey is still open):

12% - Not Important
28% - Somewhat Important
43% - Very Important
15% - Critical Component

If you haven't already registered your opinions, please take the short survey and receive the full and final report for free!

Survey - http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e64mo7lmh4g6ur76/start

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of July 8, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
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Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Enterprise mobility is evolving so fast that I thought it prudent to conduct a mid-year enterprise mobility survey with 20 short questions and share that information with you. For that purpose, I would be most grateful if you would take a few minutes to answer these questions and share your insights. I will compile the survey results into a report and share it FREE with all survey participants. Please take the survey here.

Healthcare Finance News has outlined five ways telemedicine can play an important role in decreasing overall healthcare spending. Read Original Content

Healthcare is in the middle of a mobile revolution. Doctors are adopting mobile apps that make them more effective, and patients are taking to ones that give them more control over their healthcare. Here are 11 apps that stand out from the crowd. Read Original Content

According to a recent survey conducted by Wolters Kluwer Health’s Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 71 percent of nurses are using smartphones for their job. The survey included responses from 3,900 nurses and nursing students. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

Check out these five reasons why the Surface tablet could be first Microsoft product doctors embrace. Read Original Content

Although they make up just 1-2 percent of the entire market for mobile apps, healthcare apps are expected to grow 25 percent annually over the next five years, compared to still-impressive 23 percent growth estimated for the standard apps market. Read Original Content

A new report by a national health policy institute, NEHI, provides a glimpse of how mobile technologies are reshaping diabetes management. Read Original Content

President Obama has signed the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, The Hill's Healthwatch blog reports, shoring up the FDA's role in creating guidance for mobile medical apps. Read Original Content

Colonel John Boyd

One of the greatest military strategists of the 21st century was the late USAF Colonel John Boyd. In his workshops he emphasized the need for agility, new and quicker ways of thinking, and competitive decision-making. He taught that advantages in observation and orientation enable a tempo in decision making and execution that outpaces the ability of your competition to react effectively in time. His core strategies were compiled into the acronym OODA (observe, orient, decide and act).

These strategies are meaningful to nearly every company that is developing a mobile strategy and thinking about potential ROIs. Have you considered the negative impact on your business that might develop if your competitors connected their mobile workforce to real-time business analytics, CRM, EAM, field services, ERP, etc, and you did not? What if your competitors could respond faster to customer service issues, optimize real-time scheduling, respond faster to new sales opportunities, solve problems faster and make better decisions in the field? What if they could run circles around you?

Boyd stressed that the key to winning is the tempo. He called his theory, Fast Transients. The theory of Fast Transients suggests that in order to win or gain superiority we should operate at a faster tempo than our adversaries.

There is a big difference between running a batch mode or offline business, and running a real-time enterprise. Real-time means you have mobilized your workforce and you can make the best decisions possible, and respond as fast as possible from nearly anywhere.

In the mobile strategies workshops that I taught in 11 countries last year, I start by asking the audience what kind of business tempo do they want to support and maintain. The purpose of this questions is to get my clients thinking about how their business can be transformed if they operated on a faster tempo with mobile solutions and real-time data exchanges.

Boyd preached that the key to winning is the speed with which you change and adapt to changes. How fast can you switch from Plan A to Plan B? How soon can you recognize the need to change plans?

In the mid-year enterprise mobility survey that I have open right now, making better real-time decisions is currently the second leading ROI that companies are seeking by mobilizing their enterprise. The third is developing better customer interactions by using mobile solutions. Better customer interactions often involve responding to your customers' needs faster. Sounds like Boyd's tempo strategy again.

If you would like a free copy of the mid-year enterprise mobility survey results, please take the survey and I will send the final results to you.